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General Knowledge Quiz 360 (60 MCQs)

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1. Who of these was a US senator for the state of New York from 2000 to 2008?
2. What name is used for the index of activity on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange?
3. What is the effect of mixing manganese dioixide with hydrogen peroxide?
4. Where are chemical elements listed?
5. What is the painful and incurable, so far, condition characterised by uterine cells growing outside the uterus?
6. According to Lewis Carroll in his novel "Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There" (1872), what was used to kill the Jabberwock?
7. The FAI awards the Leonardo da Vinci Diploma annually in what discipline?
8. LeeAnne Rimes and Carrie Underwood are associated with what sort of music?
9. In what country did the MNLA which was formed by Tuareg, the peoples indigenous to the area, declare the independent state of Azawad in 2012?
10. While the Capital Punishment Amendment Act 1868 in the UK did not put an end to capital punishment it did do what?
11. What was the name of an iron case containing gunpowder that was used to destroy a gate or palisade?
12. What stitch, also called a whip stitch (when done by machine) or a crochet stitch (when done by hand), is used to reinforce the edge of thick materials?
13. In 1994 NFL star O.J.Simpson was acquitted of murdering his ex-wife and who else?
14. What is the maximum number of goal keepers allowed on the field during a game of soccer?
15. What Pope took office on 21 June 1963?
16. In which country was Pol Pot Prime Minister from 1976 to 1979 and leader of the communist movement known as the "Khmer Rouge" ?
17. Which of these was not an ancient Egyptian god?
18. Brees and Brady are well-known names in what sport?
19. Who is the New Zealand-born physicist whose discoveries include most of the great advances in physics between 1899 and 1930?
20. What sport may involve a tercel, or tiercel?
21. Where is the Tamu (Texas A & M University) Massif?
22. What is a WPESS system used to do?
23. During the 12th to the 18th centuries multiple countries claimed the area now known as Latvia; which of these was not one of them?
24. When they played together between 1965 and 1966, John Mayall, Hughie Flint, John McVie & Eric Clapton were known as what band?
25. What is the name for a small single-headed drum, in the rim of which are fitted pairs of small circular metal plates, called "jingles" ?
26. From its discovery in 1930 until 2006, what was considered to be the Solar System's ninth planet?
27. Nancy Astor made history in Britain in 1919 by doing what?
28. How does the Bishop of Durham sign himself?
29. What constitutes a "capot" in playing the card game piquet?
30. Why was the start of the Eurasian KHL (Kontinental Hockey League) 2011-12 season of ice hockey delayed for nearly a week?
31. Of which species of plant found on the floors of east Asian forests from eastern India, Indochina, China and Japan have 93 species been formally described, and, it is speculated, there may be 200 to 300?
32. Which multiple award-winning American TV series (the first of which was broadcast in 2011) was filmed in Northern Ireland, Croatia, Iceland, Spain, Malta, Morocco, Scotland, and Canada as well as the USA?
33. Which of these was not a nickname for George Herman Ruth, Jr, the American Major League baseball player from 1914-1935?
34. Which naval battle took place in December 1939, the second naval battle in the events for the Second World War?
35. When the Itaipu Dam was filled in 1982 it submerged what spectacular Falls?
36. Which of these aircraft was built last?
37. Which of these countries was an ally of Germany at the start of World War II, and its enemy by the end of it?
38. Iō-tō, also known previously as Iwo Jima, is part of which country?
39. In the USA, what is special about 2 February?
40. Where in the UK is the Captain Cook Schoolroom Museum, a statue of James Cook as a boy by Nicholas Dimbleby, and a granite obelisk that marks the original site of the Cook family home?
41. Which American vocalist (described by the British newspaper "The Guardian" as "one of the greatest voices of her generation") whose repertoire included jazz, blues, folk, gospel and pop, was unknown outside Washington, D.C., until after she died of melanoma in 1996?
42. The films "The Hunt for Red October", "Patriot Games", "Clear and Present Danger" and "The Sum of All Fears" feature which character created by Tom Clancy?
43. One of the actors in the TV series "The IT Crowd" (2006-2013) also appears in which of these other TV series?
44. Singer Katie Melua is a naturalised British subject. Where was she born?
45. Which of these tunes is from the 1937 animated Disney movie "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" ?
46. Who was a British political reformer, writer and politician, noted for her long-standing championship of the Single Transferable Vote system of elections who is the author (1974) of "How Democracies Vote", a standard reference work on electoral systems?
47. The Volga Delta, at the mouth of the Volga River, is on the shore of what?
48. The volcanic Gaua Island is part of what Pacific country?
49. Complete the title of this James Bond film: "Diamonds Are ..... ''?
50. Vocal music in mediaeval Christian Latin liturgy is often called what kind of chant?
51. Who was the main character in the Who's rock opera "Tommy", the boy traumatised by the murder of his mother's lover?
52. Which Irish-born novelist wrote the satire "Gulliver's Travels" ?
53. What name was given to the original owner of the skull found in Sussex in 1911 that was believed at the time to be from one of the oldest human race in Europe?
54. For someone on a gluten-free diet, which of these would be a possible ingredient in a meal?
55. What is the symbol for a 30th wedding anniversary?
56. The young female animal called a filly is what type of animal?
57. The coasts of which two countries are farthest apart?
58. What was the first National lottery held in England intended to raise money for?
59. Cocona, aguaje, bacaba, acai, maracuya and camu camu are fruit crops native to what area?
60. Which people(s) are believed to have been the first to import metal artefacts and, possibly, use woven fabric in the British Isles?
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